Power outage history
Summers County West Virginia
16hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
32nd most of 55 in West Virginia 2.5× the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Summers's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 28 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Summers, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2017 | No storm report | 5,123 | 77% | 3.3 d | 3.1 d | 117k |
| Jan 6, 2025 | Winter storm | 2,078 | 31% | 4.4 d | 3.4 d | 74k |
| Nov 15, 2018 | Ice storm | 1,900 | 29% | 3.4 d | 2.8 d | 70k |
| Jun 23, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 2,989 | 45% | 2.4 d | 37 h | 53k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Windstorm | 1,578 | 24% | 5.4 d | 3.1 d | 52k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 3,074 | 46% | 2.2 d | 27 h | 42k |
| Jul 28, 2023 | No storm report | 1,054 | 16% | 2.0 d | 16 h | 32k |
| Aug 7, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,279 | 34% | 29 h | 20 h | 32k |
| Mar 21, 2018 | Winter storm | 1,718 | 26% | 45 h | 32 h | 26k |
| Jul 8, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 783 | 12% | 3.0 d | 37 h | 23k |
| Jun 22, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,213 | 18% | 43 h | 22 h | 22k |
| May 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 561 | 8% | 2.3 d | 2.2 d | 20k |
| May 29, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,588 | 24% | 25 h | 4.5 h | 15k |
| Mar 24, 2018 | Winter storm | 300 | 5% | 3.0 d | – | 12k |
| Jul 14, 2015 | No storm report | 1,702 | 26% | 23 h | 3.2 h | 11k |
| Aug 29, 2024 | No storm report | 552 | 8% | 19 h | 20 h | 10k |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 364 | 6% | 30 h | 15 h | 8.8k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | No storm report | 806 | 12% | 11 h | 5.2 h | 8.0k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | No storm report | 1,395 | 21% | 14 h | 7.5 h | 7.7k |
| May 14, 2017 | No storm report | 710 | 11% | 12 h | 5.5 h | 7.6k |
| Dec 18, 2018 | No storm report | 545 | 8% | 11 h | 11 h | 6.1k |
| Oct 20, 2018 | No storm report | 305 | 5% | 39 h | – | 6.1k |
| Apr 2, 2016 | Windstorm | 2,259 | 34% | 20 h | 48 min | 6.0k |
| Jun 21, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,067 | 16% | 23 h | 2.0 h | 5.9k |
| Jan 23, 2015 | Winter storm | 696 | 11% | 19 h | 5.2 h | 5.7k |
| Jun 27, 2018 | No storm report | 541 | 8% | 13 h | 13 h | 5.7k |
| Sep 25, 2024 | No storm report | 544 | 8% | 13 h | 13 h | 5.6k |
| Nov 7, 2020 | No storm report | 802 | 12% | 8.0 h | 6.5 h | 5.6k |
| Jun 15, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,152 | 17% | 8.2 h | 6.2 h | 5.4k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Windstorm | 1,051 | 16% | 21 h | 17 h | 5.1k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Summers from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 43%
- Winter storm 17%
- Thunderstorms 15%
- Windstorm 15%
- Ice storm 9.6%
- Tropical storm 0.7%
- Flooding 0.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Summers
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole West Virginia territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | Investor Owned | 1,035 | 546 | 2.98 | 17.0 | 348k |
| Monongahela Power Co | Investor Owned | 1,250 | 553 | 3.72 | 14.3 | 334k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 6,622 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →